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Casey Liss

John Siracusa

Marco Arment

Accidental Tech Podcast

• Pre-show: Casey’s dreams were squashed 

Ubiquiti Travel Router
Verizon Jetpack
Marco’s hotspot • (newer models exist; check for refurbs, they’re 
way • cheaper than new)

Solis Edge

 • Follow-up: 

 • The 
Grim Reaper • FiOS 
CableCARD email • came for John 

TiVo Roamio Pro
Casey on Downstream

 • Temporal dithering (via Kyle Foreman)

 • Dagnabbit, the screen count is just too damn high 

MSI MEG Vision X • (
Screen grab • )

MSI Lightning RTX 5090 • (
Screen grab • )

 • Wi-Fi channel selection & size

Wi-Fi 7 8

 • A tour of Apple- (or John-) relevant monitors from CES 

 • As a reminder… 

Apple Studio Display
Pro Display HDR

MSI MPG 271KRAW16
DisplayHDR 1400 certification
MSI MAG 271KPD7 • 

Monitors Unboxed

ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCWM • (
Photo • ) 

HDTVTest

Subpixel arrangements

Apple Creator Studio • 

Icons over time
Photomator • lives on… for now (via 
Chris Welch • ) 

MacRumors

Apple’s defense of the icons
Jason on iWork freemium

Apple 🤝🏻 Google • 

More from The Information

Chase to become the new issuer of Apple Card • 

FAQ
Back story on the Wall Street Journal • (
Apple News • )

 • Post-show: 
NBA Immersive • 

Stratechery
Dithering

Members-only • ATP Overtime: The continuing disaster at Twitter 

 • Elizabeth Lopatto: 
Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards
 • Dan Moren: 
Apple cowardly still has not pulled X and Grok from the App Store
 • Bloomburg: 
Musk’s Grok AI blocked in Indonesia, Malaysia over sexual images
 • Robert Hart & Jess Weatherbed: 
X hasn’t really stopped Grok AI from undressing women in the UK

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674: A Reliable, Boring Partner

• Pre-show: Casey has a question for Marco 

LivePhish
Goose on Bandcamp
Nugs

 • Thank you, 
ATP Patrons • !

 • Follow-up: 

 • Cord-cutting 

Casey on Downstream
suppose.tv

 • Multi-select in iOS Contacts.app (via many, including 
Simon Ljungberg • )

 • The 
Studio Display • is $1600 (via 
Greg Seay • ) 

Quinn’s video on making a 5K display

 • Display flickering (via Stephen Perelson) 

This started in late 2020 with Big Sur
Temporal dithering • (AKA Frame rate control)

Stillcolor • to disable temporal dithering on macOS

BetterDisplay • for turning on and off GPU dithering 

Docs

PlayStation Portal • 

 • …works with 
PlayStation Plus
 • …but 
really needs solid Wi-Fi
 • …and 
doesn’t support Wi-Fi 6
 • …and requires wired or first-party Bluetooth headphones

 • Double-tap title bar to 
Fill • (via 
Chirag Desai • ) 

Knowedge base
System Settings • → 
Desktop & Dock • → 
Window title bar double-click action • → 
Fill

 • Wi-Fi 7 

 • Ubiquiti’s Wi-Fi 7 implementation is not great (via 
Reid • ) 

WPA3

 • WPA3 is not well supported (via 
USB Type-Steve • )

 • Alternatively, try band steering (via Patch)

 • Wi-Fi Pro 
Abraham Vegh weighs in
 • …as does pro Saul Sutherland

 • John’s 
Eero Max 7 • setup

 • Thread vs. Matter 

Thread
Matter
Derek Seaman’s series
 • To run Matter in HA, you need a 
separate container

Apple Fitness+ and Quitter’s Day • 

Bodi

ASML • & 
TSMC • 

Extreme ultraviolet lithography
Veritasium: The Ridiculous Engineering of the World’s Most Important Machine
Asianometry: ASML: TSMC’s Critical Supplier, Explained • 

TSMC Analysis playlist

The Spectacular Failure of the Star Wars Hotel

 • Tech stuff we’re looking forward to in 2026 

Gartner hype cycle
The Trow of Disillusionment

 • Post-show: Casey 
bought something silly • 

Quinn’s video
GL i.Net
/r/ubiquiti
Teleport
Extremely dodgy firmware upgrade approach
Portainer

Members-only • ATP Overtime: Strange form factor rumors for forthcoming iPhones 

The Information
MacRumors
 • Mockup 
image • & 
video
Jason’s • & 
Stepen’s • posts

iPhone fold display quietly debuted at CES?

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673: Six Impossible Things

• Pre-show: 
Comply TrueGrip MAX for AirPods Pro 3 • 

Pepperidge Farm Remembers

 • Follow-up: 

 • Contacts 

 • Contact lists are a thing (via Dayton Lowell)

 • Some non-obvious complications (via Paul)

 • Face ID & Touch ID 

 • Older folks really do struggle with Touch ID (via Harrison Krebs & 
Kurt Schwind • )

 • Strictness (via Rob Sayre)

 • John’s Liquid Glass bug in macOS 26.2 (via 
Gui Rambo • ) 

Gui’s PR

 • Some more about Podcasts.app and background execution (also from Gui) 

FB17228659
Developer Technical Support

 • RAM shortage 

Verge article
Micron’s forthcoming fabs
Hynix’s approach • 

…and forthcoming fabs

Samsung’s approach
Thru-Silicon
The Vergecast RAM Holiday Spec-tacular

 • Data portability 

 • Git 

 • Github will still sink its talons into you (via 
Simon Jodet • )

 • Xcode 🤝 Git (via Tom Hartnett)

Android ↔ iOS

 • Display flicker in Tahoe 

 • What does this even mean? (via Daniel)

 • One theory (via 
Sean Santry • )

 • Some corroboration (via 
Philip Hofstetter • )

Wi-Fi 7 is a bust • 

-protonsandneutrons-
Playstation Portal

 • Ask ATP: 

 • What’s the difference between minimizing and hiding windows on macOS? (via Michael Krewson)

 • Post-show: What the heck is the deal with 
Thread • /
Matter • 

Home Assistant
Nanoleaf Smart String Lights
Lutron Caséta • (former sponsor)

YoLink

Members-only • ATP Overtime: 
iMac Pro… phoenix? • 

Previous code name discussion
Jason on Apple’s display strategy

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672: Wi Hyphen Fi

• Pre-show: Christmas-slideshow time

 • Follow-up: 

Paris Buttfield-Addison’s locked Apple ID • 

🇦🇺 ACCC: Consumer Rights & Guarnatees
🇺🇸: Remember when we had a CFPB?

 • Chat math

 • Metadata thread splitting & merging

 • Colin spells it out for us 

TV Everywhere
XMLTV
m3u8
IPTV Github Repo
 • 🚨 Proceed with caution 🚨 
StreamEast
506 Sports

 • Custom pronunciations in iOS 

Accessibility • → 
VoiceOver • → 
Speech • → 
Pronunciations • 

See Apple support

Accessibility • → 
Read & Speak • → 
Pronunciations • 

See Apple support

Apple video guide

Tahoe Studio Display flickering
 • Malicious content delivery in Apple Podcasts 

Previously 1
Previously 2

iPhone roadmap • 

Article on The Information

iPhone XX rumor roundup • 

Under-screen FaceID?
Haptic buttons?

Apple exploring touch-sensitive iPhone cases • 

Patent

 • Ask ATP: 

 • How do we manage our contacts? (via 
Tyler Kindy • )

 • How do we use version control? (via Dmitry Myronenko)

 • 🗣️ Remember, 
ATP gift memberships • are a thing!

 • Post-show: 
John’s bug • 

 • FB21375029

Sample project

Members-only • ATP Overtime: RAM shortage, or the flip-side of the Apple Intelligence RAM dividend 

Sam Altman’s dirty DRAM deal
RAM is ruining everything
It-hurts-because-it’s-true wisecrack by ziplyne
The RAM shortage is here to stay
Chipwrecked

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671: Even Apple Can’t Beat the Sun

• Pre-show: Marco joins team snow tires 

i3 • : 155/70R19

XC90 • : 275/40R21

Molex
F-150 Lightning’s demise

 • 🗣️ Remember, 
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 • 🗣️ New 
ATP Members • Special: 
ATP Movie Club: WarGames • 

WarGames

 • Follow-up: 

 • Some impromptu spoiler-free follow-up about the member’s special

 • John’s 
Cloudflare • update 

Hypercritical

 • Marco’s former TV (via 
Wayne Morgan • )

 • Apple executive departures 

 • Jeff Williams has been nominated to join Disney’s board 

Press release
The Verge

 • Would Johnny Srouji consider Rivian? What about NVIDIA?

 • Apple 2030 & carbon credits (via Zach)

 • Split iMessage groups (via 
sirshannon • )

 • AI-generated voice-matched dubbing 

Fran Besora • tried the Spanish version

Stefanus Secundus • tried the German version

Ben Mattison • had an 
odd YouTube experience

 • Siri and pronunciations (via 
Paul Zadunajsky • )

 • Intel 
stealing • learning from chips it fabs 

 • Thread by 
Joe Lion • 

VHDL

 • Jason Biatek points out this is all basically cryptography 

Galois blog post

 • Migrate Purchases (via James Wilby)

Paris Buttfield-Addison got locked out of his Apple ID… because of a gift card • 

Casey’s tangentially-related rant

Netflix to acquire Warner Brothers • 

Dominic Preston at The Verge
From the past: Blockbuster’s reaction to Netflix • 

Marc Randolph’s comment

Paramount launches hostile $108B bid • 

Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Larry Ellison’s big dumb gift to his large adult son
Gruber’s take
As per Brian Stelter • , Netflix is prepared

More Paramount context from Charles Pulliam-Moore at The Verge • 

Emma Roth at The Verge: CBS News was just taken over by a Substack
Elizabeth Lopatto at The Verge: Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed

 • Post-show: Casey asks for programming help 

StoreKit2
UserDefaults
NotificationCenter
Singleton
Publisher
@Environment
Dependency injection
@EnvironmentObject

Members-only • ATP Overtime: The State of TV 

Verizon FiOS stabs John & Casey
CableCARD
PCMCIA
TiVo
Channels
HDHomeRun
TVEverywhere

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670: Institutionally Inescapable

• Pre-show: Casey has a giggle about central Virginia snow

 • Follow-up: 

Apple Fitness+ • is 
doing better than the Mac Pro • 

Workout Buddy
Previously with Jay Blahnik

 • More adventures with 
Cloudflare • 

jramskov’s observation
TLS Certificate lifetimes
 • Alternatively, 
GitHub Pages
 • Some thoughts from an anonymous Cloudflare employee 

Workers
Pages
R2
KV
Durable Objects

Oops… we broke it • 

Landon’s observation
5 December Outage • 

React.js vulnerability

 • Say my name, Siri! 

Siri response preferences • (via Jonathan Gulbrandsen) 

Screenshot

 • AirPods and Contacts (via Oren Idan)

 • We’re… uh… sorry. Our bad. 

Sean Santry
Reid Sorenson

 • iOS 26 rollout 📈 

Underscore on 20 November
Underscore on 8 December

 • Intel 🤝 Apple Commentary 

Tambourine Man
David Beck
Goffredo Marocchi • 

Previously on ATP
Srouji’s comments (timestamp link to 34m26s)
Maybe Intel will just do packaging?

Maybe iPhone chips too?

 • Gruber is… 
not a fan… of Alan Dye • 

Dye Was in Tim Cook’s Blind Spot

Apple’s revolving door keeps spinning • 

 • An anonymous observation

Gurman, 6 December
Gurman, 8 December
Gurman’s departing executive tracker image

 • Post-show: 

 • Messages conversation merging

 • A feature request

Members-only • ATP Overtime: 
Apple Watch & Mac mini are no longer advertised as “carbon neutral” • 

Apple 2030
Apple commits to 100% carbon neutrality for supply chain & products by 2030 • (21 July 2020)

Carbon removal & offsets

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669: Ternus, Take the Wheel

• Pre-show: Marco has a 
new toy
 • Follow-up: 

Vision Pro Light Seal sizes decoded • 

Vision Pro Size Help tool

JPEG XL • lives… 
in PDF • 

Chromium ticket
jxl-rs: JPEG XL in Rust

 • Chapter links in Apple Podcasts 

Stephen Robles • on 
The Talk Show
Apple documentation
ATP on Threads

Malicious content delivery on Podcasts.app? • 

404 Media article

 • Everybody is leaving Apple 

John Giannandrea to retire from Apple • 

Amar Subramanya’s first-week experience at Microsoft

Alan Dye poached by Meta • 

Jason’s take

Cloudflare’s 18 November Outage • 

Cloudflare
Lets Encrypt
Hypercritical
Callsheet

 • Ask ATP: 

 • Why can’t Siri pronounce names correctly? (via 
Tony West • ) 

serra queue sah
Siri, what’s my full name

 • Post-show: 

 • What now, bagel snobs? 

BagelFest
Baltik’s Bagel: People’s Choice award
Baltik’s Bagel
Coverage from the NY metro area

Bullstrap Minimalist Case

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Apple 🤝 Intel? • 

Intel 18A vs. TSMC N2
MTr/mm²

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668: So Happy for All Parties Involved

• Pre-show: Marco bought a new toy 

ATP Diamond Dogs: Talk Me Out of It II
Bryan’s toot • 

pen.tips
Paperlike 3
Paperlike Pencil Tips

 • Follow-up: 

 • macOS Tahoe 26.2 β3 seems to fix Electon slowdown (per 
shamelectron • )

Gurman says “not so fast, my friend”
 • Gaming in ARM 

 • Anti-cheat complications (via 
Tyler • )

 • Windows 11 on ARM (via David Gaw)

OpenAI Egg update • 

Interview video
Fred T

Apple N1 > Broadcom
 • An iPhone camera cluster theory

The UK is still trying to make fetch happen get themselves a back door • 

Financial Times

Apple Fitness+ is “Under Review”
Fast charging & battery health • 

Juli Clover summary @ MacRumors

 • Ask ATP: 

 • Now that Marco owns a restaurant, does he tip differently? (via Max Velasco Knott)

 • What do we think about third-party packages? (via Eric Jacobsen) 

swift-collections
swift-async-algorithms
CPAN
Flow

 • Is organizing 
/Applications • a poor choice? (via Nathan)

 • Are our kids better than we are at video games yet? (via Omri Arbiv) 

Ultimate Chicken Horse
SongPop Party
UltraKill
Universal Paperclips
Cookie Clicker

 • Post-show: The saga of Overcast episode images 

Core Intuition
Linode Object Storage
CloudFlare R2

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forced • to put away our phones? (via Philip McDermott)

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667: Wisdom and Treachery

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 • Follow-up: 

 • The origin of “diamond dogs” (via 
Jared Counts • ) 

Wikipedia

 • Matte, glossy, glass, and nanotexture (via Johnny “Decimal” Noble) 

Paperlike
Rock Paper Pencil

 • Steam Machine 

EuroGamer article about APU/GPU • (via 
DavidShaub • )

 • PlayStation 5 OS is FreeBSD-based (via 
Jesús Santaigo Narváez • ) 

Wikipedia
PS Dev Wiki

 • Steam Frame 

 • Lenses (via 
Michael • )

Spec chart • (via 
James O’Loughlin • )

Top strap image
 • Steam → Apple Vision Pro using 
ALVR • (via Iain Wallace) 

Guide on Reddit

 • SteamOS 

 • Is not universally supported (via 
DavidSchaub • )

 • Alternatives (via 
solmnmagus • ) 

Bazzite
CachyOS

 • Anti-cheat considerations (via Julian Torres)

Screw it, I’m installing Linux

 • Steam strategy 

 • Is Steam-on-ARM popular? 

Hardware survey • (via 
Lars Boris • ) 

Additional thoughts from Ava

 • Steam has only one person to answer to (via 
charlesesmith • )

Single thread performance ranking • (via 
Steven Op de beeck • )

 • “High-Res Antiglare” (via Adam Wunn)

 • John mourns 
the recent news • 

 • GPU issues (via 
Colin Cornaby • )

 • GeekBench Metal scores 

Mac Pro (2019) + AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT
Mac Studio (2025) + M3 Ultra

The Case for a True Mac Pro Successor

 • Tim Cook to step down as early as next year 

Tim Cook & Kara Swisher in 2021 • (starts at 35:51) 

 • As discussed in 
ATP #425: Hey Billionaire

Financial Times, 14 November 2025
Gruber’s take
Joe Rossignol @ Mac Rumors • 

Apple Corporate Governance Guidelines • 

 • Post-show: Declan discovers “
HyperCard • ” 

Rage-baiting

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The App Store on the web • 

Dan Moren @ Six Colors
MJ Tsai
Apple shipped its source maps • 

Svelte • 

 • See also: 
Apple Maps on the web • 

Announcement

 • See also: 
Apple Podcasts on the web • 

Juli Clover @ MacRumors

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666: We Have Nothing That Hot

• Follow-up: 

 • John has some new Vision Pro treats 

Flight Ready

 • In the defense of the CD-R (via Jonathan Goforth) 

ATP Tier List: Storage Media

 • Auto-generated chapters in Apple podcasts 

 • We’re dummies: ATP has a [chapter-free] bootleg

 • Some more technical details (via 
Stephen Robles • ) 

Subscriber audio chapters are a mess

 • New MacBook Pro design is 
for M6 Pro & Max only? • 

Mark Gurman’s coverage
MD101

 • Tahoe & Electron app fixes 

Discord is fixed • (via Dayton Lowell)

 • Microsoft Teams Classic is likely to 
never • get fixed (via Adam Wunn)

 • macOS Emoji Picker 

 • ⌃ ⌘ Space

Rocket

Pogo-stick robot • 

Boston Dynamics

 • A butt-dialing theory from 
Trey Carpenter

iPhone Pocket • 

Paul’s analogy
Gruber’s post

iPod Socks • 

On eBay

New Steam Hardware • 

 • Initial coverage 

Image of the new devices
Announcement video
Digital Foundry’s coverage
Dave2D’s coverage

Steam Controller • 

TMR • not 
Hall Effect
Understanding the difference

Steam Machine • 

Images on The Verge

Steam Frame • 

More photos

 • Post-show: Marco goes to 
Home Depot
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Affinity graphics apps go free, and some people are upset • 

Press release

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665: My Basement Is Beautiful

• Follow-up: 

Explaining Code using ASCII Art
iFixit's New MBP Teardown
Apple Watch Independence
_'s Watch Usage Chart

Apple Watch Designer Anna-Katrina Shedletsky
Decrypted: Conversation with Phillip Shoemaker
Previously about Shoemaker: Apple's App Store Director Sells His Own Fart Apps

macOS 10.15's System Partition
System Integrity Protection

New iPod touch
Guilherme Rambo's Screenshot Leaks
iOS 13
Blending Stump

macOS 10.15

Apple Pro Display
Pontificating about the Mac Pro
...oh yeah and some other WWDC stuff.
Post-show: What's owning a 10-year computer really like?

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